Girls Who Code leading charge for women in computer science – CBS News

President Obama was the first Commander-in-Chief to write a line of computer code, after learning the basics of JavaScript on Monday. The lesson put him among the ranks of some 53 million students who “coded” somewhere in the world during the past year.

But right now, women only represent 12 percent of all computer science graduates — a drop from 37 percent in 1984. One woman is on a mission to change those numbers and get more than a million girls to code over the next 10 years, reports CBS News correspondent Jericka Duncan.